Help on writing Data CD- other 'junk' files appear with ~$

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Hi,

I am trying to write a data cd with some files off my hard drive. Both
times that I have tried it, the files that I need are copied, but there are a
lot of other files copied onto the CD as well. These excessive files start
"~$" or a "~" and either end with .tmp or .doc.

Help, before I go off the deep end,

Ivan
 
Ivanl said:
Hi,

I am trying to write a data cd with some files off my hard drive. Both
times that I have tried it, the files that I need are copied, but there
are a
lot of other files copied onto the CD as well. These excessive files
start
"~$" or a "~" and either end with .tmp or .doc.

Help, before I go off the deep end,

Ivan
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The filenames that contain a tilde (~) character are most likely MS Office
temp files that are left behind when Office does not terminate normally.
Every time you create or edit a Word doc file a temporary copy is created.
Temp files (.tmp) are similar in nature. Most of the time you can safely
delete them. If you delete a file and the system returns an error "Access
Denied" or the like, the file is probably being used by another process.

See also:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211632

Mark
 
Thanks Mark.

Mark F. said:
The filenames that contain a tilde (~) character are most likely MS Office
temp files that are left behind when Office does not terminate normally.
Every time you create or edit a Word doc file a temporary copy is created.
Temp files (.tmp) are similar in nature. Most of the time you can safely
delete them. If you delete a file and the system returns an error "Access
Denied" or the like, the file is probably being used by another process.

See also:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211632

Mark
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